Carolyn Kunin: [to A.Sklyarenko] This is all very interesting but how is it possible
that, as you write in your btw, that Sirin published Petersburg (or anything
else for that matter) in 1913?
Jansy Mello: The chronologies and
twists in LATH must open the way for this kind of
envious invention for, as he himself admits it in his lectures on
literature, for Nabokov Bely's St. Petersburg is "regarded as one of the four greatest
masterpieces of twentieth century prose, after Ulysses and The Metamorphosis
and before In Search of Lost
Time " (wiki):